Nigeria

Last month, four Americans (including one U.S. Ambassador) were killed in a terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya. While the death of an ambassador is always monumental – Chris Stevens is the first ambassador killed in the line of duty since Adolph Dubs was murdered by extremists in Afghanistan in 1979 – [...]

For all the outrage directed at BP after last year’s oil spill, the destruction wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger delta goes unchallenged. Novelist Helon Habila addresses the calamity in a new novel.

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